'Battlestar Galactica' prequel 'not intended for television'

Battlestar Galactica's David Eick has claimed that new prequel Blood & Chrome was never intended for television.

The producer told sciencefiction.com that Syfy's decision not to pick up the project for a full series should not be considered "some kind of rejection or failure".

"It was originally developed as an online project," Eick insisted. "It was a little frustrating for me a few months ago when I saw the headlines that the Blood & Chrome project had somehow been rejected or was a failed pilot or wasn't gonna make it on the air and all those kinds of things.

"It was never intended to be a traditional pilot, so to speak, such that Syfy not picking it up in a traditional manner to an episodic series was some kind of rejection or failure. It was always developed, at least from my point of view, as a project for an online environment."

Eick continued: "There were discussions about [a television pick-up] but for a variety of reasons - I think not the least of which was because there was a genuine feeling that we had really designed something altogether groundbreaking from a visual effects standpoint - [Syfy decided to] stick with the original plan."